| Show FIRES C CAUSED USED BY Four Persons Missing Great Forests Destroyed SAN SAM AN FRANCISCO July 16 The biggest electrical storm torm that could e eer c er thrust thru t Its it lagged fangs of fire tire Into a tinder dr California forest Is 19 not n t feared nearly as much by the tho ih United SaLes Faes ales forest service as the tiniest fragment of ofa o a 11 e cis cl or dropped into the th dry forest humus said sal I t chief of othe the public relations relation department of f the th sen Ice In the sorest fire tiro situation rr In li hf he state today We can spot pot A tire fire t t once Hutchinson said Wo We Acan bee ace ke where the tho lightning strikes and nd can enn close clos In on the th fire fir right rich L tires fires are aro ar our away away way l CIG nETS CIG UW RITS TS lIn But But the 11 live li e or cigar that It butt we w cannot re soe aught start a fire tire that could gain terrific headway before It Is even Cn spot led I HI Ill II take tak a dozen dosen electrical storms lorms to ono one tiny live JIve Coll from a or r cigar Tho The axe of ot the th pioneer woods woods- woodsman nan Man blazing a trail till through ough the forests for ad 11 L another Innocent caute calse of forest tires according to 10 other forest See The Tho felled fellet trees give the tho sh bri-sh h opportunity to grow And nd in certain sections this Ibis comes lip by thickly and quickly dies Ues quid quick And forms an acute acut fire fir hazard Lazard rany of ot the th fires tire burning today Ore Are In III brush bruh lands land were cleared ot of their Umber timber sears ago ty by the argonaut hosts who hewed out homes and clearingS clearing'S In the thereal great forests Eastern Washington ton northern and California today were continuing their moro more mor or less un- un stul battles ag forest fires but rains In la western wc Wash Wash- Washington Washington W rh ington ind nd nd Oregon Oreton ld Iod nearly ended the tho Ire fire menace tl II elf ate c e eroin ro roin rota LIt MISS G Fires in northern Idaho and nOt northeastern Washington n last night thousand Iliad burned over seera soHra acres of ot limber timber land and had the surface workings ot of tour four mine mines mince a number of ranch houses and much property of lum lum- lumber lum- lum lumber lumber ber companies including several hundred thousand fee feet fe c fit of f timber Umber ho bo far tar as known n n no lives have been lost although a number of persons have hav been InJured and some Homo Ih tie Hie e stock Block lock killed d four per per- persons per person sons son are missing in h Co- Co Columbia Co Columbia lumbia ro fOtt S E DA E DA RED I lames acre tre close cloe enough to seven en e town tons in the Pend 0 ilver i h er valley to cause anxiety to the In some serre places rancher had loaded heir belong belong- lint on ml railroad oad cars in i Atlon tor for a quick a tiT The Th surface buildings building's of the th Nabob Jim B aloe aine Little Pit burg eburg and i uelas mines mints nea Kellogg base haie been o In the Santa Barbara national foret forest In California last eat night fire lie fighting crew crews succeeded In throttling the western of tho the flames to a comparatively ly barrow arrow front bet between een Fa mill and ba T tooth mountain mountains orly to re- re receive r word that a 0 fresh outbreak had been discovered at Oak Grove Grov It a mile mil north of o the main fire fireline line The Th flames flame there ther were ere being fanned b by a stiff wind Ind A new n w fire tire In the tho th Angeles Angele no- no notional na national I forest also In California in the San Gabriel range ranee between Mount Lowe Lone and a d nt Mo Wilson lIson lIu burned over 30 acres acre but was con con- controlled con controlled on- on trolled last lut night RAINS RAIX BRING BRIG SID ID SIDA I IDA ID IDA A soaking ran lats lat yesterday follow n il g R showers shower sho ers on Monday dr clr cir ill all small fIres In western on and brought the more iterating blazes under control Fire Fir Warden arden J M hI MX l b of KIng Kinc count Washing Washing- Washington ton ton said laid that ono one on more good food rain would settle fire tir worries in toot for the th present Rains in la Oregon Monday end en enabled the th fighters to gel eel control of all fires |
